ship Governors have to remember, especially parent governors they represent parents not themselves and have no right to vote down academy status unless they have balloted parents. Also governors are there to support the head teacher not tell them what to do surely if the school management want to go for academy status then so be it they are the professionals. At the risk of upsetting many governors and I have been governors of every kind of school, including nursery and Tertiary College since 1975 and a governor …

The list of public servants earning more than the £150,000 a year includes several working in education — with Ofsted staff doing particularly well.
At the Department for Education, however, there is just one person earning above that level. He is David Bell the Permanent Secretary of the DfE who earns between £180,000 and £184,999.
Over at the Department for Business Innovation & Skills, which is responsible for FE and universities, there are 11 civil servants earning above the £150,000 threshold. However most of these are not in the education part of …

http://www.education.gov.uk/Three cheers we now have a return to the Department for Education hopefully now education will not be lost in the busy Childrens and Family issue all are so important they need their own space. Parentsoutloud welcomes Michael Gove we have spoken with him in the past and have no doubt we will be doing so again in the not to distant future. Here is the link to Goves initial statement
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/10113940.stm